East
To West is a Â鶹Éç North documentary looking at the lives of those who
left their lives behind in South Asia to come to the district from
the 1950s to the present day. These are just some of the people featured!
Rajinder
Paul Johar was one of the many Asian people in Bradford who
visited the Belle Vue photographic studio on Manningham Lane.
The pictures were often sent back to India or Pakistan to demonstrate
to relatives that everything was going well in England.
He says: "I sent my first photograph back to India and my wife wrote
back asking if I was working for the police - because the conductor's
uniform looked like a police uniform. Then when she saw me working
on the buses she was very upset. She said, 'You were a headteacher
back in India - what are you doing here?'"
Â鶹Éç Bradford and West Yorkshire
National Museum of Photography,
Film and Television,
Bradford
BD1 1NQ
(+44) 01274 841051 bradford@bbc.co.uk westyorkshire@bbc.co.uk
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